This is Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment agp74 "Jean Dubuffet."

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AGP74 features electroacoustic works by Jean Dubuffet, one of the major visual artists of the 20th century. Dubuffet sought to create music as, "a man who ignores everything about western music and invents a music for himself without any reference, without any discipline, without anything that would prevent him to express himself freely and for his own good pleasure." In 1960-61, he recorded himself playing a variety of instruments for which he had no training, and used a mixing box to produce musique concrete works. The relative primitiveness of his equipment gives them a raw sound reminiscent of the pioneering musique concrete works of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, from a decade earlier. Ilhan Mimaroglu came across some of these works, and was so taken with them that he released an LP devoted to them on Finnadar Records (SR 9002). This installment is a transcription of that LP.

NOTE: A CD of Dubuffet's electroacoustic works has also been released but is long out-of-print. Only three tracks are found on both the LP and CD, the rest differing. If someone has a copy of the CD and would be willing to transcribe it for a future AGP release, please email me.

To download AGP74 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS.

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